Device for lifting



(No Model.)

D. BRODBRIGK, DEVIGE FOR LIFTING. MOVING. AND CARRYING HBAVYBODIES.

Pateflted Mar. 9, 1897..

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL BRODERIOK, OF LAUREL HILL, NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR LIFTING, MOVING,AND CARRYING HEAVY BODIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,479, dated March 9,1897. Application filed November 17, 1896. Serial No. 612,478. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL BRODERICK, of Laurel Hill, in the county ofQueens and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Devices for Lifting, Moving,

and Carrying Heavy Bodies, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a device which may be used single for thelifting of some bodies or for the moving of either end, or one end afterthe other, of a longer body-such as a beam, girder, or heavy bar-orwhich may be duplicated to be applied at both ends of a long body forcarrying it from place to place.

I will first describe the invention in detail with reference to theaccompanying drawings and afterward point out its novelty in claims.

Figure l is a side view illustrating the use in duplicate of a deviceembodying my invention for lifting a body of considerable length. Fig. 2represents a transverse section in the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isaview corresponding with Fig. 2, illustrating the application of myinvention to the lifting of a round body.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

Each of the duplicate devices shown in Fig.-

' 1 consists of aleverA,having a pair of grappling hooks or tongs B Bconnected with it by two toggle-links C O. The leverA has its shorterarm bent downward to form a foot a, and is represented as having itslonger arm furnished at its end with a cross-handle a. Such handle may,however, onlybe necessary when the lever is to be manipulated by twopersons. The grappling-hooks are pivoted together by a pivot b and thusconstitute tongs such as are in common use for many purposes, ice-tongs,for example. The stocks of the said hooks or tongs-are connected by apivot c with the lower ends of the two togglelinks 0, the upper ends ofwhich are both connected to the lever A by a common pivot d, arrangedparallel with the pivots b and c and with the length of the lever, thesaid connectrated in Fig. 1, the foot a of each lever A is placed uponthe top of a body to be lifted and carried, and the grappling-hooks areplaced over the sides of the said body, as shown in Figs.2 and 3. Thelifting is performed by taking hold of and raising the handles a, whichdraws the grappling-hooks together on the sides of the body, which maythen be carried by one or more persons from one place to another by thepersons holding the handles. In like manner only one of the said devicesmay be used for lifting and carrying a short body or for moving a longerbody by first taking hold of and moving one end and afterward takinghold of and moving the other.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A lifting and carrying devicecomprising a hand-lever a pair of grappling hooks or tongs, and a pairof toggle-links each link connected by a separate pivot with one of thestocks of said hooks or tongs and both links being connected with thelever by a single pivot arranged parallel with the length of the lever,all in combination substantially as herein set forth.

2. A lifting and carrying device comprising a hand-lever having adownwardly-projecting foot, a pair of grappling hooks or tongs, and apair of toggle -links, each link connected by a separate pivot with oneof the stocks of the said hooks or tongs and both links being connectedby a single pivot with an upward projection on the said lever, all incombination substantially as herein set forth.

DANIEL BRODERIOK.

l/Vitnessesz Gnonen BARRY, Jr., FREDK. HAYNES.

